Inequality

The author of the Huffington Post article digs a bit deeper however and shows that while “The higher your income bracket, the larger the increase in your income between 2006 and 2015 … [but] … What StatsCan’s data shows is that market incomes (that is, the paycheques given out in the labour market) rose in a similar pattern to earnings after taxes — the rich saw larger pay hikes than low-income earners … [thus] … This suggests that employers, rather than government policy, were behind the increase in income inequality — but government policy did little to mitigate the situation.“

“The income gap has been growing in recent decades in many developed countries,” the author says, so why does anyone expect that Canada might be different? There are a number of factors at play: